Bontu v. Wincons

Commander / EDH Artifact Mill Mono-Black Primer Value Engine

Reznorboy

Land (35)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Cryptic Caves
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Ifnir Deadlands
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Scorched Ruins
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Zhalfirin Void

Creature (10)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Cabal Therapist
• 1x Extractor Demon
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Salvage Titan
• 1x Soul of Innistrad
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x Voltaic Servant

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Agonizing Remorse
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Infernal Tutor
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Specter's Shriek
• 1x Syphon Life
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Unmask
• 1x Vicious Rumors

Instant (15)

• 1x Cling to Dust
• 1x Cremate
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Dark Bargain
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Grisly Spectacle
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Nightcreep
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Scarab Feast
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Tainted Pact

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Ghoulcaller's Bell
• 1x Grindclock
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman
• 1x Witchbane Orb

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bridge from Below
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Shadows of the Past
• 1x Treacherous Blessing

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This deck aims to quickly remove threats from the opponents' hands, from the opponents' libraries, then from the game, and followed eventually by the rest of their deck.

THE COMMANDER Bontu the Glorified, in my eyes, is basically a very beefy Viscera Seer. Mono-black may be sparsely populated in terms of mill, but, the few cards that exist, such as Bitter Ordeal, can be game-ending, and black's wide gallery of tutors allows us to effectively play multiple, multiple copies of said cards.

LANTERN CONTROL This list uses elements of Lantern of Insight control heavily. By seeing what is to come, and then, through cards like Ghoulcaller's Bell, being able to do something about it, we can heavily influence the game. (I'm really feeling it!)

ASPECTS UNIQUE TO THIS DECK Cards like Oblivion Sower are perfect, as they can steal 4+ lands in one go after exiling some opponents' cards, which we already plan on doing. Most mill decks do not deal damage to the opponents, and therefore cannot use Mindcrank, however, we can do it using Bontu, without going out of our way, and therefore profit.

CORE PLAYS This deck contains no infinite combos (yet, and not as far as I'm aware), but after using Delirium Skeins into a Soul-Guide Lantern, "there will be no rebellion, as it will be accepted as fate." The best card to tutor for is usually Buried Alive (in my opinion), so as to effectively be able to tutor for 3 cards, instead of one, (assuming you send Soul of Innistrad).

WHY YOU MAY ENJOY THIS DECK If you want to play more methodically, and take apart opponents piece by piece, stripping them of hope, then this is the weapon. Welcome to Devour-Hour.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.40
Tokens	Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B